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donhughesmusic

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Anyone here use a Raspberry Pi for retro gaming (or any other project for that matter)? I recently built a system and am having a blast with it.
 
I use them for little home automation projects. There's an open source software called "Home Assistant" where you can have your raspberry pi be your smart house and control various things.

I also have one as a print server and controller for my Prusa 3d printer. With Octoprint you can start and control your printer through a web interface and get time lapse videos of your prints.

Raspberry Pi's are also a wonderful learning tool for embedded engineering, and the cheaper versions are only $5 for a fully functional Linux machine!
 
donhughesmusic said:
Anyone here use a Raspberry Pi for retro gaming (or any other project for that matter)? I recently built a system and am having a blast with it.
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I bought one of these 3/4 arcade cabinets and put a raspberry pi in it for retro arcade games
 
Tinkered with electronic for 40+ years. I'm amazed how dirt cheap everything is these days, especially test equipment. However the downside is in complexity and how much you need to know to get started. I feel sorry for EEs just starting out because the amount of knowledge you need to know is 2-3x what it use to be.
 
donhughesmusic said:
Anyone here use a Raspberry Pi for retro gaming (or any other project for that matter)? I recently built a system and am having a blast with it.
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Yeah, I've got one. I haven't got around to building a cabinet for it yet but i've played with the unit with a gamepad. It's pretty cool.
 
Works great with a usb dac as a music streamer or roon end point.
 
I got a raspberry pi 3B+ inside a Retroflag NESPi case running RetroPie. Very user friendly verses running stand alone emulators. If the Reto Pi shortage ever ends I'll upgrade to a Pi4.
 
The RPI is a fun little device for that. Right now I am trying to find time to get my steam deck set up for emulation.
 
jamesrage said:
I got a raspberry pi 3B+ inside a Retroflag NESPi case running RetroPie. Very user friendly verses running stand alone emulators. If the Reto Pi shortage ever ends I'll upgrade to a Pi4.
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I have the Pi4 running RetroPie. The PS games I've tried so far run almost flawlessly. N64 not so much.

I have yet to screw around with Kodi.
 
I have a pi 3b+ I used to use just as a tv computer, they can do plenty of things, however I did find older system emulation complex and lacking on the pi.
 
beerftw said:
I have a pi 3b+ I used to use just as a tv computer, they can do plenty of things, however I did find older system emulation complex and lacking on the pi.
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The Pi4 emulates pretty good (my experience anyways) with Retropie. I know the Pi4 is tough to come by though right now. I got lucky and built my system right before the shortages started.

I'd like to get a couple of Pi3s and make some other projects. The Magic Mirror looks really cool, and I wouldn't mind making a system specifically for live TV (if that is possible) or Kodi... though I guess I could use the same system and just switch out the SD cards (one card for gaming, one for TV/Kodi).
 
donhughesmusic said:
The Pi4 emulates pretty good (my experience anyways) with Retropie. I know the Pi4 is tough to come by though right now. I got lucky and built my system right before the shortages started.

I'd like to get a couple of Pi3s and make some other projects. The Magic Mirror looks really cool, and I wouldn't mind making a system specifically for live TV (if that is possible) or Kodi.
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Lately I have been using older generation Intel nucs. They can be less expensive and are more versatile (m.2 nvme support) and performant. Gen 6 and 7 are the sweet spot.
 
jamesrage said:
I got a raspberry pi 3B+ inside a Retroflag NESPi case running RetroPie. Very user friendly verses running stand alone emulators. If the Reto Pi shortage ever ends I'll upgrade to a Pi4.
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The 4 was my first one (yeah I was late to the party). PS1 games emulates really well.
 
beerftw said:
I have a pi 3b+ I used to use just as a tv computer, they can do plenty of things, however I did find older system emulation complex and lacking on the pi.
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Did you try using retropie?
 
tacomancer said:
Did you try using retropie?
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I tried it seemed like it never worked proper, on windows or linux i can get well functioning emulators, but with retropi, basically linux for arm instead of intel, it is mostly limited to clunky one size fits all emulators. I gave up after a few days of nothing wanting to work right.
 
donhughesmusic said:
The Pi4 emulates pretty good (my experience anyways) with Retropie. I know the Pi4 is tough to come by though right now. I got lucky and built my system right before the shortages started.

I'd like to get a couple of Pi3s and make some other projects. The Magic Mirror looks really cool, and I wouldn't mind making a system specifically for live TV (if that is possible) or Kodi... though I guess I could use the same system and just switch out the SD cards (one card for gaming, one for TV/Kodi).
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I do not have the pi4 though, I know the pi 3 and backwards can mostly use the same software, while much of the pi4 softwae is exlusive due to major changes in hardware and major boosts in ram.
 
I built a bar top with a Pi.
Sadly, it sits in the garage under my work bench. No place for it.



 
madman said:
I built a bar top with a Pi.
Sadly, it sits in the garage under my work bench. No place for it.



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That looks badass.

That might be what I try next, but I also want to have a slot built in for controllers, have 2 players with the arcade buttons, 2 players with controllers.
 
donhughesmusic said:
That looks badass.

That might be what I try next, but I also want to have a slot built in for controllers, have 2 players with the arcade buttons, 2 players with controllers.
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yep! the skies the limit with these things. You can even install a coin feeder switch

you can get the plans for the cabinet here: https://www.thegeekpub.com/
 
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